Duchamp Gong of this fashion bureau is leading his four divisions to settle the number and categories of the birthday gang one by one. Du Shanggong picked up an object and said the name of the product, and the treasurer checked a mark on the gift list, and then divided it into the division system, the division treasure or the division color book management according to the type. The other five bureaus had nothing to do, and they also came over to help sort it out, and sometimes commented a few words, admiring the rare toys enshrined by Li Qi.

Qin Se saw that they were clearly organized, and he also knew that he couldn't help, and there were so many of them that they couldn't be liquidated for a while, and it was estimated that it would take a few hours. She saw that Li Chengxuan was also bored with his hands on the side, so she took the initiative to mention: "You have been in the mansion for two years, and it is the first time I have come to the mansion, don't you invite me to walk around?" ”

Li Chengxuan saw that there was a divine army staring at him, and there would be no mistakes, so he stretched out his hand to Qin Se and said with a smile: "I should accompany you." ”

The two then walked together to the garden of King Fu's mansion. Speaking of Qin Se's life experience is also pitiful, when she was nine years old, her father and brother died, and her mother also died of depression, after Dezong pitied her for the founding of the country, he made an exception to canonize her as the county lord of Qizhou, and Qizhou is the birthplace of her ancestor - Qin Qiong, the Duke of Hu.

When the Empress Dowager Wang was still the crown prince Liangdi, she lived in the East Palace, and her daughters had been married for many years, and her two sons, Li Chun, were the eldest grandsons of the emperor, who had been canonized as the king of Guangling County and began to participate in political affairs; The youngest son, Li Chengxuan, is silent and has a heavy workload. Wang Liangdi felt that there was no one around her, and accidentally heard about Qin Se's life experience, so she offered to take her into the East Palace to raise her.

Dezong was very happy when he heard this, and even if he gave the decree, he praised this daughter-in-law for being virtuous and virtuous, and knowledgeable.

In this way, Qin Se, who was ten years old at the time, naturally entered the East Palace and became Wang Liangdi's adopted daughter. At that time, Li Chengxuan was thirteen years old, and he also lived in the East Palace, and he got along with Qin Se for two years, and it was not until he was fifteen years old that he opened another palace to live alone, and the two separated. However, Li Chengxuan is filial by nature, and he goes to the East Palace every day to ask his parents for morning and dusk, and he can always see Qin Se serving his mother Wang.

Until the year of his weak crown, the emperor's grandfather Dezong died, and his father Shunzong ascended the throne, and he was naturally canonized as Prince Fu and lived alone in Yongfufang. Only when he entered the palace on the first, fifteenth, and New Year's Day banquets to greet him, he would talk to his mother for a long time, and say hello to Qin Se by the way.

Li Chengxuan is the youngest son of the Wang family, and the first three sisters and one brother left their mother earlier than him, and when he opened the mansion in Waikaifu, the five children of the Wang family left his side. Fortunately, Qin Se was accompanied all the year round, so that the Wang family was too lonely in the palace, and because of this, Li Chengxuan has always been very grateful to Qin Se. Coupled with the love of living in the East Palace together when they were young, the relationship between the two is closer than ordinary people, and they don't have too many scruples when they speak.

Since Qin Se saw him today, he felt that he was a little depressed, and seeing that there was no one around, he took the initiative to ask, "What is wrong with the prince?" Feeling bad? ”

Li Chengxuan replied as he walked: "It's nothing, it's just a little tired." ”

Qin Se also heard about Li Qi in the palace, so he asked, "Is Zhenhai's matter very tricky?" ”

"It's tricky, it's also the royal brother's tricky, and this case is no longer under my control." Li Chengxuan chuckled. Since returning to Chang'an, he has reported everything to the current saint, that is, his imperial brother Li Chun. The Holy Admiral condemned the case as a rebellion and handed it over to the chief judge of Dali Temple, asking him to hand over the collected evidence together. When this is over, he can really be idle.

Seeing that he was relaxed, Qin Se couldn't help frowning slightly, but he didn't say anything after all, and instead asked about the customs and customs of Jiangnan.

Li Chengxuan picked out a few interesting things to tell her, and suddenly remembered something in the middle of the conversation: "Oh yes, I bought some silk in Runzhou, and you remember to bring it back to the palace in a while and give it to the queen mother and a few concubines." He paused for a moment and added, "There is also a share between you and Guo Guifei." ”

Qin Se rolled his sleeves and smiled: "And my share?" Thank you very much. ”

Li Chengxuan thought she was pretending to be polite, and glanced at her with a smile: "It's still according to the old rules." ”

Qin Se nodded knowingly. Over the years, whenever Li Chengxuan goes out, whether it is on an errand or on a tour, he will always bring some local specialties and objects back and send them to the palace to honor the elders. And as long as these things arrived in his mother's harem, they were all distributed by Qin Se, and then given to the ladies of the palace in his name - most of them were the former imperial concubines who were the same generation as his mother, and at most one was sent to Guo Guifei, the wife of his imperial brother.

Qin Se seems to be very good at this, and every time he grasps the amount of gifts just right, from the palace concubines, old concubines, to Guo Guifei, they are all extremely satisfied with Li Chengxuan's gifts, and often return the gifts. It is also because of this incident that Qin Se's identity has been recognized by various palaces, and everyone regards her as the future princess Fu, including the queen mother, who inevitably has this idea.

Li Chengxuan himself didn't say anything, and the Queen Mother mentioned many times that he would get married, but Qin Se's name was not said yet, and he refused. Over time, everyone in the palace knew that King Fu was playful, and he neither cared about the government nor wanted to start a family, and he was in the company of rare treasures every day, and there were a bunch of beautiful slaves and maids in the house.

The two parties involved in the rumors, Li Chengxuan and Qin Se, didn't seem to care, and their attitudes were the same as always, and they tacitly never mentioned the matter. The ladies of the palace are speculating, are these two people unresponsive, or are they really unintentional to each other? This has simply become the first unsolved case in Daming Palace, and it is a must-talk topic for the ladies of the palace after dinner, small gatherings, and banquets.

However, everyone talked about it for two or three years without any result, and they all watched Qin Se survive to the age of nineteen, and the family affairs had not yet been settled, and they all felt sorry for her. After all, according to the marriage customs of the Tang Dynasty, a woman will start to discuss marriage at the age of twelve or thirteen, and if she does not marry after fifteen, she is considered an older woman.

Although Qin Se is extremely beautiful and has a good background, he doesn't worry about getting married at all.

"By the way, Zhong Ting also brought something for you, did you receive it?" Li Chengxuan asked naturally.

Qin Se was very helpless: "The day before yesterday, the eldest princess entered the palace and transferred things to me, but ......"

"But what?"

"But why don't you check for him and ask him to give me a box of dried chrysanthemums?" Qin Se smiled.

Li Chengxuan then explained seriously: "Don't underestimate those chrysanthemums, they are all rare varieties in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhong Ting was afraid that you wouldn't be able to appreciate them, so he specially dried them and brought them back." ”

"Yes, a whole twenty precious treasures, he is really a tyrannical thing." Qin Se felt sorry for those chrysanthemums.

Li Chengxuan lowered his head and forced a smile.

Qin Se looked at him with disgust: "You're still laughing!" ”

Li Chengxuan coughed lightly and changed the topic: "By the way, how is the queen mother's birthday banquet organized?" Can I help? ”

"Everything is going well, but ......" Qin Se didn't finish his words, a little hesitant.

"You're still the old man, and you're always half-talking." Li Chengxuan commented lightly.

Qin Se sighed and expressed his worries: "I won't hide it from you, the birthday banquet is on the tenth day of October, but the Queen Mother's new clothes have not started so far, I am afraid that if it is delayed any longer, the clothes will not be able to be done." ”

Li Chengxuan frowned deeply: "Why didn't the construction start?" ”

Because the Queen Mother specified that she would use Shu brocade to make clothes. But since Liu Pi's rebellion last year, Xichuan has not paid tribute to the new Shu brocade, and the brocade of previous years has not been able to take it, and the Shangfu Bureau and the Shanggong Bureau are all worried about this. ”

Li Chengxuan immediately thought of Xiling Yue. Her stepfather, Xiao Zhiwu, is the only Shu Jin imperial merchant in Xichuan, and since he was implicated in the rebellion case of the Xichuan Jiedu envoy last year, the Xiao family has been deprived of the imperial merchant qualification.

Originally, the imperial court wanted to select a new imperial merchant, but it was abandoned because of the gān involvement of Li Shidao in the Ziqing Festival, apparently Li Shidao wanted to delay until Xiao Yi and Li Wangzhen got married, and help the Xiao family regain the position of imperial merchant, so he secretly used means to drag this matter to the present. In this way, it is naturally impossible to have a new brocade tribute.

"What about Dongchuan? Isn't there a tribute to Shu brocade? Li Chengxuan asked again.

Qin Se shook his head: "I heard from the Shanggong Bureau that the best brocades are all produced in Chengdu Mansion, and the brocades in Dongchuan are rough in texture and can't be ranked in the top three." ”

Li Chengxuan suddenly felt that this was a good opportunity to help Xiling Yue, and if it was planned properly, it would probably help the Xiao family regain the position of the imperial merchant. But perhaps there was another shortcut that was simpler than he had in mind......

(End of chapter)